I was expecting a thread on how to beat speeding tickets.
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
I remember a Lobo comic where the devil made the same offer to Lobo for anything he wanted. Very cleverly…
asks for the Devil’s soul in exchange. It’s a fair trade.
There was an entire anthology devoted to this problem that came out in the early 1960s. It was called “Deals with the Devil”.
Fredric Brown wrote quite a few such stories. I think Robert Sheckley did, too. Larry Niven’s “Convergent Series” (It appears in his anthologies The Shape of Space and, appropriately, Convergent Series) has already been mentioned.
I wrote a short story about it myself, entitled “Device Invected”, that appeared in the U. of Rochester literary magazine back in the early eighties. I’ve since read it in public a few times.
I’m surprised no one has used the classic “Homer and the Forbidden Doughnut” or whatever the short was called as an example on how to beat the devil.
Q: What does the dyslexic blues man do at midnight?
A: He goes down to the crossroads to sell his soul to Santa. :rolleyes: